Vladd’s view of the World

From a Blog by Jonathon MacDonald

Today, just after 230pm, I saw an elderly man with his arm trapped in the closing door of a faulty train at Holborn Station.

We all thought the train was heading further east but actually, for reasons we shall never know, the train was terminating at Holborn and we were ushered out onto the platform by two (shouting) staff in Underground uniforms.

http://www.jonathanmacdonald.com/?p=4024.

Jeremy Clarkson

Forty years ago, my dad came into my bedroom and made me get up.

I was nine and sleepy. I was snuggly and warm. I wanted to stay under the covers. But he was insistent. “There is something on television you need to see,” he said. And I remember the next bit vividly: “It’s going to be important.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article6869288.ece

Today is the 40th anniversary of one of mankinds greatest achievements. Forty years ago today human beings took their first steps on land that was not part of planet Earth. The names of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins will forever be a part of history, and yet there are a number of people, in fact sadly a growing number of people, who seriously think it was just a huge hoax. Now I can understand people like the government of North Korea casting doubt over these events, after all they have a population to brainwash, but why does an average man in the street believe such rubbish? I guess it is just an example of the publics growing lack of actual scientific knowledge and some peoples willingness to believe any bad science thrown in their direction. Here are some of the so called reasons given as proof as that the moon landings were faked, with a brief explanation as to why they are wrong:

1) When the astronauts are putting up the American flag it waves. There is no wind on the Moon.

The flag is held up by a horizontal bar and simply moves when it is unfurled and as the pole is being fixed into position by the astronauts. The flagpole is light, flexible aluminium and continues to vibrate after the astronauts let go, giving the impression of blowing in the wind.

2) No stars are visible in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon.

The Apollo landing takes place during lunar mornings, with the Sun shining brightly. Exposure time on the cameras is set very rapid so as not to let in too much light and obscure detail. The stars, whilst being visible to the naked eye on the Moon, are not bright enough to be captured in the photographs.

3) No blast crater is visible in the pictures taken of the lunar landing module.

The landing module touches down on solid rock, covered in a layer of fine lunar dust, so there is no reason why it would create a blast crater. Even if the ground were less solid, the amount of thrust being produced by the engines at the point of landing and take off is very low in comparison to a landing on Earth because of the relative lack of gravitational pull.

4) The landing module weighs 17 tons and yet sits on top of the sand making no impression. Next to it astronauts’ footprints can be seen in the sand.

The layer of lunar dust is fairly thin, so the landing module sits on the solid rock. The dust, whilst blown away by the blast from the descent engines, quickly settles back on the ground and is under the astronauts when they begin their moonwalk.

5) The footprints in the fine lunar dust, with no moisture or atmosphere or strong gravity, are unexpectedly well preserved, as if made in wet sand.

The lack of wind on the moon means the footprints in fine, dry lunar dust aren’t blown away in the way they would be if made in a similar substance on Earth.

6) When the landing module takes off from the Moon’s surface there is no visible flame from the rocket.

The rockets in the landing module are powered by fuel containing a combination of hydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide, which burn with no visible flame.

7) If you speed up the film of the astronauts walking on the Moon’s surface they look like they were filmed on Earth and slowed down.

The best you can say is: yes, a bit, but not really.

The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt.

This claim is largely based on a claim from a Russian cosmonaut. The short time it takes to pass through the belt, combined with the protection from the spacecraft, means any exposure to radiation would be very low.

9) The rocks brought back from the Moon are identical to rocks collected by scientific expeditions to Antarctica.

Some Moon rocks have been found on Earth, but they are all scorched and oxidised from their entry into the Earth’s atmosphere as asteroids. Geologists have confirmed with complete certainty that the Apollo rocks must have been brought from the Moon by man.

10) All six Moon landings happened during the Nixon administration. No other national leader has claimed to have landed astronauts on the Moon, despite 40 years of rapid technological development.

This is a favourite among conspiracy theorists because it needs no evidence but points the finger at the presidency of Richard Nixon. The fact is that after the Apollo landings, the race had been won and the money dried up. The USSR has no interest in coming second, and politicians on both side realised that lower-orbit missions had much greater commercial and military potential.

When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8117619.stm

Its amazing what people will ignore about you and your life just because they like your music. Its sad that a fellow human being has died, even more so that he has left children without a father although some might argue that now they have a chance of a normal life, for his family and friends it is a tragedy but reading some of the online comments from his fans you would have thought it was the death of the second coming. The man was a deeply flawed, deeply disturbed entertainer who’s time, lets be honest, had been and gone. Cut out the hysteria and just let the family move on with their lives.

Daily Mail

16/06/2009

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1193238/LITTLEJOHN.html

There’s been blanket coverage here of the unrest which has followed Iran’s disputed election. But imagine how our own political crisis looks from the Middle East. Do we really have any right to sit in judgment on other countries? Here’s how Tehran Television is reporting recent events in Britain…

Allahu Akbar! Welcome to a special edition of Eye On The Infidel, live from London, capital of the hated New Labour tyranny.

The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Brown, is clinging to power despite receiving only 15
per cent of the vote in last week’s elections.

In some conservative tribal regions, the ruling junta’s share fell to just 8 per cent, with government candidates beaten into fourth place by fascists and separatists.

Even in lowland Scotland, formerly a Brownite stronghold, Labour was humiliated
by nationalist forces.

It represented a new nadir in the fortunes of Labour under the dictator Brown, an ultra-orthodox Presbyterian theocrat, who replaced the despised Bushite running dog Tony Blair in a coup two years ago.

But Brown is refusing to accept the result of the election and has declared himself the
winner. He told the official state broadcaster that he was getting on with the job, which is what people wanted him to do.

A clumsy attempt to remove the Supreme Leader by dissidents rallying under the banner of the breakaway Guardianista faction was ruthlessly crushed.

Brown then embarked on a shambolic reshuffle of his Cabinet, in an attempt to purge reformists from key posts. But at least two of the leading dissidents remain in office, a stark illustration of the Supreme Leader’s underlying political weakness.

Such is the parlous level of his support at home, he has been forced to draft in from Europe exiled party elders like the twice-disgraced mortgage fraudster Ayatollah Mandelson and expenses baroness Harridan Kinnock to shore up his crumbling regime.

Civil unrest has been mounting since the collapse of the infidel capitalist
banking system.

In London, a newspaper vendor was clubbed to death by masked police during violent clashes between security forces and anti-globalisation protesters.

Similar hardline tactics, involving riot shields and baton charges, have also been used to suppress peaceful protests by demonstrators opposed to Labour’s totalitarian efforts to eradicate traditional English countryside pursuits.

In the Islamic province of Luton, troops clashed with brave members of local jihadist groups campaigning peacefully for the introduction of Sharia law in Britain and an end to the religious wars of aggression against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hundreds of thousands of women have taken to wearing hijabs to express their support for Sharia. The burqa is now a common sight in British towns and cities.
Meanwhile, in London, millions of commuters took to the streets after the Underground system was brought to a standstill because of a strike by revolutionary transport workers loyal to the deposed spiritual leader, Ayatollah Redken.

At the heart of this crisis is the fact that under the Supreme Leader’s profligate stewardship, the country is effectively bankrupt. Britain’s vast oil and gas reserves
have been squandered and taxes are soaring.

As well as a run on the banks, there has been widespread looting of department stores, particularly the John Lewis chain, led by members of the ruling elite making off with sofas, plasma televisions and kitchen sinks.

Politicians from all parties have stolen millions of pounds submitting false expenses claims and using public money to build private property empires and watch pornographic films.

This corruption goes right to the heart of the political establishment, with even the Treasury Minister implicated in wholesale tax evasion. Scandalously, he remains in office, even though The Speaker, Ayatollah Gorbals, has been forced to resign.

Once the home of parliamentary democracy, Westminster is little more than a talking shop, poorly attended and utterly discredited. Most of Britain’s laws are now imposed by foreign bureaucrats and judges without any debate.

Freedom of speech has been brutally repressed. Police arrested an Opposition spokesman simply for doing his job.

There is also the question of the democratic legitimacy of the Brown junta. He seized power without an election and has repeatedly demonstrated his contempt for accountability and the will of the people.

Yet rather than acknowledge their anger, he persists in changing the subject and is now considering tinkering with the voting system in a cynical last-ditch attempt to remain in power.

The Supreme Leader has withdrawn into his bunker and is reduced to issuing deranged statements on YouTube.

It is frightening to think that this madman has access to nuclear weapons and has never accepted Middle England’s right to exist. He appears to be hell-bent on wiping
the United Kingdom off the map and submerging it into an imperialist European superstate.

And yet the British still have the nerve to lecture us on democracy. My fellow Iranians, we should give thanks that we are in the safe hands of our beloved President Ahmadinejad, peace be upon him. Allahu Akbar!

http://www.thisisjersey.com/2009/05/14/airports-novel-anti-terror-move/

Nice to see our airport security doing such a grand job, how dare this woman even think of taking a book with a picture of a gun on the cover onto a plane. Does she not realise how distressing such an item would be to any right thinking person, I hope they added her details to the relevant database and took her DNA for future reference. This act of bravery by our security forces rates up there with the bravery shown by the security personel who, with no thought of their own safety removed a comic, from a young child trying to board a plane, which in an example of total thoughtlessness to public feelings and safety had a small plastic gun taped to the front as a free gift. I don’t know about anyone else but I feel much safer knowing that airports are protected by such a high calibre of staff, and that such wonderful examples of common sense are an example to us all in these times.

Police order tourists to delete photographs of bus station | Politics | The Guardian

Since when did this become illegal? Even the Met claim not to know of any law making this illegal. I hope the officers concerned were properly disciplined for exceeding their authority. I presume they were actual police officers and not as in the Enfield park incident those jumped up traffic wardens or PCSOs. So are police officers now making the regulations up on the fly? The tourists should be thankful they weren’t citizens of our glorious nation otherwise they would probably have been detained, fingerprinted, and had their DNA taken to be illegally filed before they were finally released with no charge. The public appear to be slowly losing faith in our police and incidents such as this the pre emptive arrest of eco protesters and the police behaviour at the G20 protest followed by the misleading of Ian Tomlinsons family over the cause of his death are not helping.

IPCC chief slams tactics of G20 police at demo | Politics | The Observer

G20 protests: how the image of UK police took a beating | Politics | The Observer 

Labour plans compulsory community service for youngsters | Education | guardian.co.uk

Compulsory Voluntary work? This will not be voluntary it will be work done on the cheap, has someone realised just how impossible it will be to force everyone to stay in education until they are 18 and decided to find them something else to do. Now I am all for encouraging teenagers to volunteer to do community work,but the important word there is volunteer. Who will supervise these ‘volunteers’ and what will be the penalty for not hitting the 50 hour mark? This will not increase a sense of community in our young it will probably just bring about resentment at being forced to do this service.